The Illinois Bankers Association (IBA) is proud to announce new board members for 2024 - 2025, which will further enhance the association’s record of advocacy on behalf of banks across the state.
“We are honored to have these industry leaders serve on our Board of Directors, where their skills and expertise will help build a stronger banking community for all,” said Randy Hultgren, President and CEO of the Illinois Bankers Association.
Miguel A. Gomez (CIBC Bank USA)
Miguel A. Gomez has been named as a new IBA board member. He serves as Managing Director – Community Development for CIBC Bank USA.
Miguel Gomez is a managing director and sales manager for CIBC’s Community Development Team, with over 20 years of industry experience. In this role, he leads a team of relationship managers who work closely with community organizations and stakeholders, identify community development opportunities and collaborate with initiatives that align with CIBC's social responsibility objectives. Miguel also manages the loan portfolio from a risk perspective and assists businesses across the Chicagoland area by facilitating educational seminars and sharing his financial expertise with business owners. When CIBC expanded into San Francisco and Palm Beach in 2023, Miguel played a key role ensuring appropriate coverage was in place and partnerships were identified, which have blossomed into opportunities to assist.
Prior to joining CIBC, Miguel served as a team lead at Wintrust where he led a group of relationship managers that focused on providing tailored financial solutions for small to mid-sized businesses. While there, he was recognized for his participation as a team lead in the Paycheck Protection Loan Program, which was instrumental in providing access to capital when businesses needed it most during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Miguel earned a Bachelor’s Degree & Master of Business Administration degree from St. Xavier University. He is currently on the finance committee for Esperanza Health Centers and was previously involved with the East Village Youth Program, which provided mentoring to grade school and high school students.
In addition, he was recently featured in Negocios Now 50 Powerful Hispanics in Corporate and ranked in Crain’s 2020 Notable Minorities in Commercial Banking list for his role in assisting businesses in the Pilsen & Little Village and surrounding communities of Chicago, providing coaching, expertise, and serving as a role model to junior lenders.
Miguel lives in Bensenville, IL with his wife and two children. When he isn’t working or supporting entrepreneurs, you can find him at local sporting events, spending time with his family and attending his children’s extracurricular activities.
Quint Harmon (Resource Bank, N.A.)
Quint Harmon has been named as a new IBA board member. He serves as Senior Vice President at Resource Bank, N.A.
Over the last 30+ years, Quint served in executive roles with several financial institutions prior to joining Resource Bank, N.A. Quint serves on many industry and civic boards that include IBA committee assignments, Coal City School Board, Police Pension, and many other industry appointments. Quint has focused his career in the financial industry, beginning with retail and spending the last 25+ years in commercial markets.
Tom Hough (Carrollton Bank)
Tom Hough has been named as a new IBA board member. He serves as Executive Vice President at Carrollton Bank.
Tom’s great-great-great grandfather founded the community bank in 1877 in Carrollton, Illinois. Tom is a 2013 graduate of the University of Illinois. He began his banking career with CIT Group, working as a commercial credit analyst in CIT’s Chicago office for three years.
Tom joined Carrollton Bank in 2016. He is active in several areas of the bank – commercial lending, finance, operations, and marketing. He is a member of the bank’s executive management group.
Today, Carrollton Bank remains a privately-held, owner-operated company, with the majority of its shareholders being full-time employees. Carrollton Bank has 11 locations, including Carrollton, Springfield, and nine locations in the St. Louis Metro Area. In addition to Tom, there are two other Houghs working at Carrollton Bank – his mom (Suzanne, Vice President – Community Development) and his dad (Tom, Chairman and CEO, past IBA chairman).
Alan Kwasneski (Marquette Bank)
Alan Kwasneski has been named as a new IBA board member. He serves as SVP Director of Regulatory Compliance Risk Management at Marquette Bank.
Alan Kwasneski is the Senior Vice President Director of Regulatory Compliance Risk Management at Marquette Bank, a neighborhood bank located in the Chicagoland area with 20 branch locations and approximately $2.1 billion in assets. Alan oversees the Compliance, BSA, and CRA Departments and is responsible for managing, developing, and maintaining the comprehensive regulatory compliance risk management function for the Bank, including its Regulatory Compliance Risk Management, Fair and Responsible Lending, BSA/AML, and CRA Programs. Alan is also active in corporate governance matters serving as Secretary for Marquette National Corporation and Marquette Bank Boards of Directors, as well as the liaison for the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Alan joined Marquette Bank in 2012 and has over 20 years of regulatory compliance experience in the banking and mortgage industry. He serves as the Senior Vice President and Officer for Marquette Bank’s Affordable Housing and Education Foundations. Previously, he served as the Compliance Officer for a few community banks in the Chicagoland area where he developed and implemented formal regulatory compliance management programs and provided extensive report writing and support to regulatory agencies.
Alan is an active participant in the banking and compliance industry. He is currently the Program Officer on the Board of Directors and Program Committee Chair for the Chicagoland Compliance Association and an active member of the Illinois Bankers Association’s Government Relations Committee. He also serves on various compliance-related committees and working groups through the American Bankers Association. Alan is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager and holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Eastern Illinois University. He is a graduate of the American Bankers Association’s National and Intermediate Compliance Schools and Illinois Bankers Association’s Compliance Management School. Alan resides in Lemont with his wife Risa and three children.
Ryan Martz (Solutions Bank)
Ryan Martz has been named as a new IBA board member. He serves as Senior Executive Vice President at Solutions Bank.
Ryan holds a degree in Economics from Northern Illinois University. An internship at Solutions Bank during college inspired him to pursue a career in banking. Upon graduating in 2009, Ryan embarked on his professional path with Solutions Bank. His commitment and expertise have earned him progressive roles, starting as a credit analyst, advancing to Loan Officer in 2012, Assistant Vice President in 2013, Vice President in 2015, Senior Vice President in 2021 and ultimately his current role of Senior Executive Vice President of Lending.
Ryan’s commitment to his career and the banking industry has been demonstrated with his ongoing commitment to education and involvement in several Illinois Bankers Association committees. His achievements include graduating from the Future Leaders Alliance Class in 2015 and the Graduate School of Banking – Madison in 2017. Ryan has served on the agricultural Advisory Committee from 2016-2025, the FLA Board 2019-2026 and IBES Board 2023-2024.
In addition to his banking career, Ryan remains actively involved in his family’s crop farming business. He and his wife Mackenzie are raising their three children in Polo, Illinois.
He will serve in a non-voting capacity on the IBA Board, representing the FLA class.
Maria Tabrizi (First Women’s Bank)
Maria Tabrizi has been named as a new IBA board member. She serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer at First Women’s Bank.
Maria is an organizer and member of the leadership team of First Women’s Bank in the role of Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer. She has responsibility for risk management, technology, infrastructure and operations.
First Women’s Bank opened July 2021, is based in Chicago and is the first denovo bank in the State of Illinois in over 10 years. First Women’s Bank is the only women-founded, women owned, and women led commercial bank in the US with a focus on the women’s economy and closing the gender lending gap.
Maria is a graduate of Loyola University of Chicago and a CPA. Maria started her 30+ year career in public accounting and has experience in a variety of banking roles including audit, risk management, financial reporting, operations, regulatory compliance, IT, information security and mortgage banking. Prior to joining First Women’s Bank, Maria served as the Chief Audit Executive of MB Financial Bank and was a member of MB’s Bank Executive Management Committee. Prior to MB, Maria was Group Senior Vice President of Cole Taylor Bank.
Maria currently serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Community Depository Institutions Advisory Council, American Bankers Association Community Banking Council and various other professional organizations including the Chicago Finance Exchange.
Maria resides in Vernon Hills, IL with her husband Dominic, is the proud mom of two grown sons and a huge Cubs fan.
More information about IBA’s Board of Directors and committees can be found HERE.